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sloping ou the upper side but square below, surmounts the 

 whole. All the mouldings, except the chevron, are sadly muti- 

 lated and wasted. The two outer pillars, with the exception of 

 their capitals and abaci, are restorations, as are also the bases of 

 the inner ones , and it is to be regretted that the mistake has 

 been committed of making each of the restored shafts a dis- 

 engaged monolith, whereas in the old work they were cut out of 

 the jambs. The doorway is placed within a broad shallow 

 quasi porch, near the west end of the S. wall, and projecting 

 about 10 inches from the wall face. 



Its dimensions are : — 



Height to under side of lintel - 6 ft. 10 in. 



Do. to soffit of inner order - 8 ft. 4 in. 



Width of aperture - - - 2 ft. 11 in. 



There is a fragment of what may have been the original base 

 course at the east end of the church, but it is almost wholly 

 concealed from view by the ivy growing against the wall. 



In the interior there is inserted in the S. wall to the E. of the 

 pulpit a stone with the inscription — 



HELPE THE PVE. 

 1573. V.E., 



rudely carved upon it. Dr Anderson, the author of the Old 

 Statistical Account, states that this stone was "taken down at 

 the rebuilding of the east aile or old choir;" but he gives no 

 date. 



COCKBURNSPATH, 



Under its old name of Colbrandspeth, was originally a 

 chapelry of Old Hamstocks, which, with Abbey St Bathans and 

 Coldingham, embraced the entire area of the parish prior to its 

 independent parochial erection shortly after the Reformation. 

 Whether the parish church — an extensively modernised edifice 

 on ancient foundations— represents the chapel, is doubtful. 

 Near Chapelhill — whose name would almost of itself suffice to 

 identify it as a religious site — there are indications of a grave- 

 yard having existed, and there can be little doubt that this 

 would be associated with a chapel. But we know from ancient 

 documents that there was, in addition to the chapelry, a 

 hospital at Colbrandspeth ; and it has not been clearly ascer- 



